Ooh yes they can @punkdoc … we had a big black Labrador who swore blind that he’d not stolen my rib eye steak off the table … didn’t we @WonkyWomble … 😉
… and then there was the Welsh Springer called Billy who denied having stolen the remains of the turkey that’d been roasted in the bronze-casting furnace at Laurence’s studio at Yew Tree Farm … remember that Wonky? However the bout of collywobbles he suffered for several days gave him away didn’t it 🤣
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@Dovefromabove Was that the same spaniel that used to drink out of the Adnams beer drip tray in the local pub then lay on the benches and fall off? But I'm afraid I'm with Boss dog the black Labrador....I saw nothing! 😉 Bless him 😍
Might I ask a question as somebody who doesn't watch the programme? There seems to be a lot of animosity concerning AF. What is the problem with AF? He seems like a personable chap to me but, as I said, I don't watch the programme. Does he give wrong information? Is his garden crxp? Is he not posh enough or is it just that he's not MD?
@B3 … AF has a ‘non-u’ accent. Even those who profess not to care about such things, obviously do. Either that, or while some folks don’t like folk they perceive to be posh being successful on tv, many folk seem to dislike folk rising above their station even more. 😵💫
Some accents are euphonious to me to the extent that I lose the thread whilst listening to the music. AF's accent is gentle and pleasant enough to my ears but then I'm a Londoner who found a genuine Bow Bells cockney accent a delight. It's gone now. US and Australian TV coupled with Estuary English has done for it.
I thought we were more or less over accents, now. I DO like to be able to understand what is being said and very strong accents can be a problem that way, especially if they come from the other end of the country, but as long as they don't block meaning, it's fine. I do hate grammatical mistakes, though, so maybe I'm just a snob, anyway!
I thought we were more or less over accents, now. I DO like to be able to understand what is being said and very strong accents can be a problem that way, especially if they come from the other end of the country, but as long as they don't block meaning, it's fine. I do hate grammatical mistakes, though, so maybe I'm just a snob, anyway!
I've no issue with anyone's accent, but grammatical mistakes are annoying, however, factual inaccuracies are inexcusable. ( and endless soppy long shots of dozing dogs )
I had parents who spoke grammatically correctly (even if it was because the nuns beat Ma’s hands with a ruler if she didn’t 😡) so I grew up speaking grammatically correctly from a very young age … however other people had other childhoods … some folk who speak ‘incorrectly’ have achieved far more than I have and I admire them for it, whatever their background and however they speak. I’m not going to look down on them for not having had my ‘advantages’.
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… and then there was the Welsh Springer called Billy who denied having stolen the remains of the turkey that’d been roasted in the bronze-casting furnace at Laurence’s studio at Yew Tree Farm … remember that Wonky? However the bout of collywobbles he suffered for several days gave him away didn’t it 🤣
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Was that the same spaniel that used to drink out of the Adnams beer drip tray in the local pub then lay on the benches and fall off? But I'm afraid I'm with Boss dog the black Labrador....I saw nothing! 😉 Bless him 😍
There seems to be a lot of animosity concerning AF.
What is the problem with AF? He seems like a personable chap to me but, as I said, I don't watch the programme. Does he give wrong information? Is his garden crxp? Is he not posh enough or is it just that he's not MD?
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I do hate grammatical mistakes, though, so maybe I'm just a snob, anyway!
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